Django REST Framework and FileField absolute url

Question

I\'ve defined a simple Django app that includes the following model:

class Project(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=200)
    thumbnail =         


        

Answer 1

Thanks, shavenwarthog. Your example and documentation reference helped enormously. My implementation is slightly different, but very close to what you posted:

from SomeProject import settings

class ProjectSerializer(serializers.HyperlinkedModelSerializer):

    thumbnail_url = serializers.SerializerMethodField('get_thumbnail_url')

    def get_thumbnail_url(self, obj):
        return '%s%s' % (settings.MEDIA_URL, obj.thumbnail)

    class Meta:
        model = Project
        fields = ('id', 'url', 'name', 'thumbnail_url')